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Château des Roches

France

Style
Neoclassical architecture
Heritage status
listed in the general inventory of cultural heritage
Location
Bièvres
Coordinates
48.757°, 2.20063°
Links
Wikimedia Commons
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Château des Roches in France
Photo: Parisette · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The Château des Roches (part of the domaine des Roches) is a French château located in the commune of Bièvres, in the former province of Hurepoix, today the department of Essonne and the Île-de-France region, fifteen kilometres south-west of Paris. It is known in particular for having hosted in the 19th century a literary salon led by Louis-François Bertin and frequented by Victor Hugo, and for housing today the Maison littéraire de Victor Hugo. It belongs today to the association culturelle soka de France (ACSF).

Machine-translated from “Château des Roches (Bièvres)” on the French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Château des Roches ranks #8,280 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #844 of the 954 mapped in France. 58 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Paris, 16 km away. See how France compares in the castle statistics.

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